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In this pyrolysis, sub atmospheric partial pressures are achieved by employing a diluent such as steam. Because of the corrosive nature of the acids (HE and HCl) formed, the reactor design should include a platinum-lined tubular reactor made of nickel to allow atmospheric pressure reactions to be mn in the presence of a diluent. Because the pyrolysate contains numerous by-products that adversely affect polymerization, the TFE must be purified. Refinement of TFE is an extremely complex process, which contributes to the high cost of the monomer. Inhibitors are added to the purified monomer to avoid polymerization during storage terpenes such as t7-limonene and terpene B are effective (10). 

Hydrogenation Reactions. Hydrogen over a nickel, platinum, or paladium catalyst can partially or totally saturate the aromatic ring. Thermal hyrogenolysis of toluene yields benzene, methane, and biphenyl. 

The kinetics of the oxidation of CO on a platinum surface indicate that CO and oxygen are adsorbed to about the same extent. The rate of oxidation depends on the oxygen partial pressure when CO is in excess, and on tire CO partial pressure when oxygen is in excess. 

As noted above, the roasting of most metal sulfides yields either the oxide or sulfate. However, a few metals can be obtained directly by oxidation of their sulfides, and these all have the characteristic property that their oxides are much less stable than SO2. Examples are Cu, Ag, Hg and the platinum metals. In addition, metallic Pb can be extracted by partial oxidation of galena to form a sulfate (the Scotch hearth or Newnham process, p. 370). The oversimplified reaction is ... 

C and weighed. The precipitate is almost insoluble in hot water, but dissolves readily in ammonia and cyanide solutions. Gold is reduced to the metal by the reagent, and platinum (if present in appreciable quantity) is partially precipitated either as a greenish complex compound or as the metal, upon boiling the solution. The precipitation of palladium is not complete in the presence of nitrates. 

Dimethyl 2,7-dimethyI-4//-azepine-3,6-dicarboxylate (7) with platinum and hydrogen in cyclohexane solution at atmospheric pressure undergoes rapid partial reduction to the 4,5-dihydro-l//-azepine 8.29... 

The values of the adsorption coefficient of hydrogen for both reactions were practically identical (1.9 and 2.1 atm-1). Here, the selectivity of the branched reactions depends on the partial pressure of methylcyclopentane. This difference may be accounted for by assuming that either the cleavage of the C—C bond of methylcyclopentane in the (3-position and in the 7-position with respect to the methyl group does not take place on the same sites of the surface of platinum (or on the sites of the same activity), or that the mechanism of hydrogenolysis is more complex than that ex-... 

The most successful class of active ingredient for both oxidation and reduction is that of the noble metals silver, gold, ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium, and platinum. Platinum and palladium readily oxidize carbon monoxide, all the hydrocarbons except methane, and the partially oxygenated organic compounds such as aldehydes and alcohols. Under reducing conditions, platinum can convert NO to N2 and to NH3. Platinum and palladium are used in small quantities as promoters for less active base metal oxide catalysts. Platinum is also a candidate for simultaneous oxidation and reduction when the oxidant/re-ductant ratio is within 1% of stoichiometry. The other four elements of the platinum family are in short supply. Ruthenium produces the least NH3 concentration in NO reduction in comparison with other catalysts, but it forms volatile toxic oxides. 

No experiments appear to have been made with such cells, although the equation has been verified with oxygen at different partial pressures in admixture with nitrogen, with platinum electrodes and hot solid glass as electrolyte (Haber and Moser). A similar case is that of two amalgams of a metal, of different concentrations, as electrodes, and a solution of a salt of the metal as electrolyte (G. Meyer, 1891). Here we must take the osmotic pressures of the metals in the amalgams, Pi, P2, and, for an 7i-valent metal ... 

The catalytic system used in the Pacol process is either platinum or platinum/ rhenium-doped aluminum oxide which is partially poisoned with tin or sulfur and alkalinized with an alkali base. The latter modification of the catalyst system hinders the formation of large quantities of diolefins and aromatics. The activities of the UOP in the area of catalyst development led to the documentation of 29 patents between 1970 and 1987 (Table 6). Contact DeH-5, used between 1970 and 1982, already produced good results. The reaction product consisted of about 90% /z-monoolefins. On account of the not inconsiderable content of byproducts (4% diolefins and 3% aromatics) and the relatively short lifetime, the economics of the contact had to be improved. Each diolefin molecule binds in the alkylation two benzene molecules to form di-phenylalkanes or rearranges with the benzene to indane and tetralin derivatives the aromatics, formed during the dehydrogenation, also rearrange to form undesirable byproducts. 

The photo-Kolbe reaction is the decarboxylation of carboxylic acids at tow voltage under irradiation at semiconductor anodes (TiO ), that are partially doped with metals, e.g. platinum [343, 344]. On semiconductor powders the dominant product is a hydrocarbon by substitution of the carboxylate group for hydrogen (Eq. 41), whereas on an n-TiOj single crystal in the oxidation of acetic acid the formation of ethane besides methane could be observed [345, 346]. Dependent on the kind of semiconductor, the adsorbed metal, and the pH of the solution the extent of alkyl coupling versus reduction to the hydrocarbon can be controlled to some extent [346]. The intermediacy of alkyl radicals has been demonstrated by ESR-spectroscopy [347], that of the alkyl anion by deuterium incorporation [344]. With vicinal diacids the mono- or bisdecarboxylation can be controlled by the light flux [348]. Adipic acid yielded butane [349] with levulinic acid the products of decarboxylation, methyl ethyl-... 

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